Volunteers wanted to support and assist victims of crime. Volunteers should be aged over eighteen years and will require to have a police check. Individuals who have experienced crime and understand its impact and who are prepared to share their experiences and insights in supporting others would be most preferred. Also, if you are able…
DetailsPolice figures for the past twelve months reveal that violent assaults and drugs dealings have increased significantly in the City of Maribyrnong. Physical assaults have surged 13.8% to 635 cases. Physical assaults, excluding family violence, increased 7.7% to 446 offences. Drug offences increased 7.5% to 777 incidences. Police Inspector Tony Long said a Family Violence…
DetailsKaitlyn Welsh Sacred Heart College Geelong Becoming a victim of crime can be a very confronting and traumatic experience but the State of Victoria has made significant efforts to ensure that victims do not have to face these difficulties alone or without support. Unfortunately, crime does not discriminate – anyone can become a victim. Victoria has…
DetailsOn the 15-07-12 at around 1.30 am a twenty-five-year-old Security Guard was seriously physically assaulted outside a nightclub in South Melbourne by a twenty-two-year-old member of the Finks Motor Cycle Club after being refused entry. The Security Guard was subsequently surgically treated at the Alfred Hospital and the assailant has since been charged and is…
DetailsOn the 15-07-12 two male assailants armed with an iron pole and a taser broke a glass window at the Research home and assaulted the twenty-six-year-old male victim and the twenty-eight-year-old female victim with the weapons. One of the assailants, a twenty-eight-year-old from Fawkner, has since been charged while the other assailant remains at large.…
DetailsOn the16-07-12 at around 1.40 am four offenders with weapons robbed a St Albans Convenience Store stealing cigarettes and cash. Later that same morning the same offenders attempted to rob a service Station in Hopers Crossing but fled after the shop assistant challenged the assailants. Four teenagers, aged between thirteen and nineteen years, have since been…
DetailsOn the 11-07-12 at around 11.15 am a female offender aged in her thirties and wearing a scarf over her head and of Middle Eastern appearance handed the female bank teller a note demanding $50,000.00 and threatened to shoot those in the bank as well as telling the bank teller that her children were being…
DetailsOn the 07-07-12 at around 12.40 pm a Beaconsfield male got out of his ute at an intersection in Dandenong and approached another motor vehicle who he alleged had cut him off. The driver of the second motor vehicle, fearing for his and his family’s safety, drove off with the driver of the ute clinging…
DetailsOn the 07-07-12 at around 12.30 pm the male victim was waiting for a train when he was set upon from behind and thrown to the ground by a male assailant who then punched the victim more than thirty times to his face and head before the assailant fled in a green Ford motor vehicle.…
DetailsOn the 23-06-12 at around 7.00 pm a masked armed male assailant entered a convenience store in Victoria Road Northcote and threatened staff with a knife before stealing cash. On the 01-07-12 at around 5.15 pm a masked armed male assailant entered another convenience store in Victoria Road and threatened staff with a knife but…
DetailsOn the 26-06-12 at around 9.25 am a fifty-one-year-old man victim disturbed a robber in his mother’s Thornbury home resulting in the robber stabbing the victim to his abdomen and demanding to know where the money and jewellery was hidden. The assailant then stabbed the victim a second time before fleeing. The assailant was described…
DetailsOn the 09-07-12 at around 5.00 pm an eighty-four-year-old woman was attacked at her from door in Glenhuntly Road causing her to fall to the ground while the assailant fled with her handbag. There have been five such similar incidents since early May 2012. On the 12-05-12 a seventy-eight-year-old woman was attacked from behind as…
DetailsOn the 07-07-12 at around 7.40 pm a male witnessed two male burglars exiting a home in Heidelberg Heights carrying a plasma television. The witness confronted the burglars who dropped the television and chased the witness who managed to escape and call the police from a nearby public telephone. If you have been the victim…
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